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hand, and the possibility of a case so curiously si in the same way; thereupon she stepped out into the drizzle

The nature of her errand, and Grammer Oliver's account of the co horror to Grace's conception of

Fitzpiers She knew that he was a youngan intervieith hie and

social aspect fro as she stood, in Grammer Oliver's

shoes, he was simply a remorseless Jove of the sciences, ould not

have mercy, and would have sacrifice; a man who But since, in such a s ti, there was notto meet him now

But, as need hardly be said, Miss Melbury's view of the doctor as a

, irresistible scientist was not quite in

accordance with fact The real Dr Fitzpiers w as ato any great eminence in the

profession he had chosen, or even to acquire any wide practice in the

rural district he had marked out as his field of survey for the

present In the course of a year his h all the zodiacal signs of the intellectual

heaven Sometimes it was in the Ram, sometimes in the Bull; one month

he would be immersed in alchey and astronomy; then in the Crab of German literature

and metaphysics In justice to him it must be stated that he took such

studies as were immediately related to his own profession in turn with

the rest, and it had been in a month of anatomical ardor without the

possibility of a subject that he had proposed to Grammer Oliver the

terms she had mentioned to her mistress